Is there too much inequality? We are witnessing for the first time in many decades a vigorous public debate in the United States and many European countries as to whether income inequality is approaching unjustifiable levels. The financial crisis has drawn special attention to remuneration at financial firms, as well as other more broadly based increases in inequality, and the pendulum may well have swung back toward attitudes favoring strengthened regulations. It is against this background of shifting public and political views about income inequality that the Roland Berger Foundation...

In seiner explorativen Untersuchung beschreibt und analysiert Tobias Raffel erstmals die Politikberatung durch Unternehmensberater in Deutschland. Er zeigt u.a. auf, mit welchen Aktivitaten Unternehmensberater auf diesem Feld tatig sind, aus welchen Grunden Politikberatung durch Unternehmensberater zustande kommt und welche Folgen dieses Phanomen hat.